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acétone

French, noun/a.se.tɔn/

acétone is spelled A-C-É-T-O-N-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,652nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acétone is a French feminine noun meaning “acetone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Composé le plus simple de la famille des cétones de formule CH₃COCH₃”.

What does acétone mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineacetone

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Composé le plus simple de la famille des cétones de formule CH₃COCH₃.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of acétone

  • acétones plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce acétone?

  • /a.se.tɔn/
  • \a.se.tɔn\
  • [a.se.tɔn]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to acétone

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is acétone in French?

acétone appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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